Cafe Alibi

Swifts Budavox poems 19901999 explored sex violence art and memory tocritical acclaim. His new collection Caf Alibi written while the author livedabroad in Buda... » 

Swifts Budavox poems 19901999 explored sex violence art and memory tocritical acclaim. His new collection Caf Alibi written while the author livedabroad in Budapest and Paris extends these concerns to include popularculture history desire nostalgia and the often competing claims of traveland home. Swifts crisp elegant deceptively calm language questions images ofthe child the adult and the outside world in ways both witty and disturbing.Caf Alibi maps a stylish itinerary through exotic terrain offering at oncehostility and ultimate peace poetry that puts love to the test and disarms ourdarkest fears.Critical CommentThis slim edition ... contains elegant swift poems precise as shards of glass.Bridget Hourican The Dubliner Nov. 2002Swift writes exquisitely about everyday experiences changing the base metal ofour existence into something fine and valuable.Tony LewisJones Poetry ScotlandSwift arranges that formal renegade language into an entirely believableand often lovely alibi.Lisa Pasold Literary Review of Canada Dec. 2002These are the words of a poet where words are ... lavishly seeminglyuncontrolled but finally right fitting suitably apt.Harriet Zinnes The Hollins Critic June 2003Were a director like JeanLuc Goddard to create a fulllength feature film froma collection of peoms Caf Alibi would be the perfect choice.Vallum FallWinter 2005...a collection that is both colourful and sharply crafted. Caf Alibi feelspacked somehow a kind of suitcase of stylish imagery for the elegant traveler.Here are poems infused by Budapest and Paris and written in a brilliantlyintriguingway.... Its an impressive collection.Leviathan Quarterly 2003 «